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...All mythology and/or Hawthorne lovers unite! Here is a delightful collection of charming stories from Greek Mythology. This collection features some very popular characters like our beloved Jason, Ulysses, King Pluto and Theseus ...

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...itutions. T o their king, divine rights were paid; while for poetry, their mythology rivalled that of ancient Greece. Of Tahiti, earlier and more full... ... which assailed them. The supreme maj- esty of Oro, the great god of their mythology, was declared in the cocoa-nut log from which his image was rudel... ...laimed to be a sort of bye-blow of T ararroa, the Saturn of the Polynesian mythology, and cousin-german to inferior deities. His person was thrice hol...

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...ds of him and the wine-flask. There must be meanings to that effect in the Mythology, awaiting unravelment. For the subject opens to deeper than cella... ...a forest foli- age—rustle of silks and muslins, magic interweaving, or the mythology, if you prefer it. See, hear, smell, they are Juno, Venus, Hebe, ...

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...etrable mystery— she bought into lotteries. Can that be the abyss of which mythology warns us under the fable of the Danaides and their cask? Madame D...

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...rs, in selecting as their subject any portion of their national history or mythology, employed in their treatment of it a certain arbitrary discretion...

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...d of the master is clearly visible in the myth. First in the connection with mythology;—he 27 Plato wins a kind of verisimilitude for this as for his... ...osophy; and still less have we any right to demand this of him in his use of mythology and figures of speech. And we observe that while employing all ... ...othing truer;’ or , as in the Statesman, he describes his work as a ‘mass of mythology ,’ which was introduced in order to teach certain lessons; or ,...

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...constant process of growth and transmutation; sometimes veiled in poetry and mythology , then again emerging as fixed Ideas, in some passages regarded...

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..., and may be compared with his condemnation of the same arts when applied to mythology in the Phaedrus, and with his other parodies, e.g. with the two...

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... The irony of Lang's life and work is that although he wrote for a profession—literary criticism; fiction; poems; books and articles on anthropology, mythology, history, and travel ... he is best recognized for the works he did not write.[1] Many of the books were illustrated by Henry J. Ford, Lancelot Speed, and G. P. Jacomb-Hood also contributed some illustrations....

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...The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion is a wide-ranging comparative study of mythology and religion, written by Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). It offered a modernist approach, discussing religion dispassionately as a cultural phenomenon, rather than from a theological per...

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...e to one of those spirits of fable-fairies, or creatures of a more antique mythology—who sometimes mingled their agency with mortal affairs, half in c...